We need to hear from a Marine that had boots on the ground. Another Benghazi flowing disjointed narrative. Update to this previous story.
Via CSN News
The U.S. Marine Corps late Wednesday rejected reports that the Marine security detachment at the American Embassy in Yemen had surrendered their weapons at Sana’a airport before leaving the troubled Gulf state with evacuated embassy staffers.
It confirmed, however, that weapons – both personal and “crew-served” – had been destroyed before the State Department-ordered departure, “in accordance with an approved destruction plan.”
Earlier, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters that members of the detachment had handed over their pistols and rifles at the airport, as they were not permitted to take them on commercial aircraft organized for the evacuation.
Warren also said the Marines had destroyed their crew-served weapons – that is, weapons systems requiring more than one person to operate, such as heavy machine guns.
The idea that U.S. Marines would surrender their personal weapons to anyone, let alone to members of the Iranian-backed, anti-American Shi’ite militia that now claims to control Yemen, drew an angry response on social and other media.[…]
“Upon arrival at the airfield, all personal weapons were rendered inoperable in accordance with advance planning,” the statement continued.
“Specifically, each bolt was removed from its weapons body and rendered inoperable by smashing with sledgehammers. The weapons bodies, minus the bolts, were then separately smashed with sledgehammers.
“All of these destroyed components were left at the airport – and components were scattered; no usable weapon was taken from any Marine at Sana’a airport. To be clear: No Marine handed a weapon to a Houthi, or had one taken from him.”
Earlier, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly reported that, according to a source, the order for Marines to hand over their personal weapons at the airport had come from the State Department.